NVIDIA MCP72 chipset delayed

NVIDIA is getting all the headlines this morning, though maybe they don't want to. Digitimes is reporting that the MCP72 chipset, otherwise known as the nForce 700 series for AMD platforms, is being delayed until the first of next year. Being as it is now December 28th, this makes sense, no? Still bad news is bad news.

Nvidia originally planned to roll out the new MCP72
chipset in late November or early December but will now postpone
shipping to January, along with the planned launch of its MCP78,
according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.

The
sources detailed that Nvidia will introduce the new nForce 700a chipset
family for AMD platforms, which includes MCP72XE, MCP72P and MCP78H in
January, in attempts to compete with AMD's rival RD790 chipset.

Around
the same time as the launch of the MCP72 family, Nvidia will also
introduce the new MCP78S which includes a GeForce 8 series-based IGP,
the sources added.

Following these launches, Nvidia is
expected to introduce two new MCP78 chipsets, the MCP78D and MCP78U
(GeForce 9200), in February. The MCP78D will not support hybrid SLI
technology and will target the entry-level market with a price tag of
about US$55. The chipset is similar to the MCP78S but adds an IGP. The
MCP78U is an IGP enabled version of the MCP78H and carries an expected
price tag of US$78, the sources detailed.